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Local.com Drops LEC Billing Acquisitions

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Irvine-based Local.com , the online operator of local search advertising sites, said today that it has suspended its acquisition of LEC-billed subscribers, and will focus on providing its own, credit-card local business product, Exact Match. Local.com said it will instead focus on traditional local business products, charged at $1795.00

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Google Wants to Disrupt Home Automation with $3.2 Billion Nest Acquisition

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Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. Another media report says Google has been trying to develop its own energy monitoring space with an app dubbed Google EnergySense to monitor thermostats remotely.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

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More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

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Finding and Discovering New Music With Earbits

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Los Angeles-based Earbits (www.earbits.com) has developed a service geared around new music discovery and streaming, making it easy for passionate music fans to find new bands, tracks, and albums they like. Can you talk about what the new product is about? The new release gives the platform more on-demand features.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

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Xconomy Q&A: Vuforia, Pokémon Go, and Augmented Reality

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Qualcomm had worked to develop its Vuforia technology for at least five years before a maturing smartphone market and new economic realities led to the sale. PTC completed its Vuforia purchase last November as part of a broader initiative to build a new platforms business through a series of acquisitions and organic investments.,